Article ID: 20180719030
We aimed to clarify the efforts of newly graduated nurses in dealing with more than one patient simultaneously. Data were collected from 7 newly graduated nurses using semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the KJ method. The newly graduated nurses were inspired to “learn new knowledge and skills through experience” through the novel experience of nursing more than one patient simultaneously based on “Obedience toward senior nurses” and “Reflection on each occasion”. In this situation, “struggle due to fear of ignorance” about the treatment was the driving force for newly graduated nurses. In this process, newly graduated nurses were performing both “efforts toward understanding pathology and gathering information” and “preparation of proactive business” with the support of senior nurses. Additionally, newly graduated nurses were performing “challenging, difficult nursing practices with the support of seniors nurses” while striving to “build human relations with seniors nurses” and derive “inventive ideas for reporting and consultation required for nursing professionals”. “Learning new knowledge and skills through experience” was strengthened with “independent and flexible work place learning”, leading to the acquirement and refinement of nursing competence. The results demonstrated the efforts to gain nursing competence by awareness of lack of expertise.
